Leonard Feather, the jazz musician and writer, had wonderful descriptive abilities. What he wrote in regard to the great trumpeter Chet Baker's singing has always stuck with me: It's "like being sweet-talked by the void." Here is a link to Baker's performance of "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)", that I think illustrates the uncanniness of both that description, and Baker's uniquely beautiful vocal style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbPHTBiAVQ&feature=fvst. More on him and the song's composer (Hoagy Carmichael) in posts to come.